Background

Mr. William P. Frank is a Partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom L.L.P. Mr. Frank is a Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's national litigation legal practice leader and a member of the Policy Committee, represents major corporations, investment banking firms and individuals at both the trial and appellate levels. He concentrates on securities, commercial contract, fraud and RICO litigation, as well as class actions and shareholder derivative suits and arbitrations. ... He also focuses on takeover cases and proxy contests, and SEC and the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) administrative proceedings and investigations, as well as oil and gas, real estate, insurance and ERISA litigations. He served as officer and director of major U.S. and non-U.S. corporations. He was lead counsel in the Waste Management, Inc. securities class actions and related litigation, and a member of the defendants’ negotiating committee in the NASDAQ antitrust litigation. He represented a predecessor of Citigroup Inc. in a successful three-month jury trial in New York in which the plaintiffs claimed millions of dollars in damages for breach of contract and of a fiduciary duty in connection with the failure to do a public offering of securities. On behalf of the Psychiatric Hospitals of America (Questar) Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Mr. Frank was trial counsel in a successful jury trial in the federal court in Philadelphia and appeal to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals relating to an ESOP’s contract to purchase a majority block of stock. He serves as the Chairman and Trustee of Practising Law Institute, Inc. He serves as a Trustee of Fordham University. Mr. Frank is a frequent panelist on seminars regarding federal procedure, securities laws, and federal and state litigation sponsored by the Practising Law Institute, the American Bar Association, Glasser, ALI/ABA Law Journal Seminars-Press and the New York State Bar Association.

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